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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-30
Payment by the Hour.

In the Declaration of Principles"
adopted and promulgated by the na-
tional association of master builders, it
Is stated that ''this association earnestly
recommends to all its affiliated associa-
tons to secure as soon as possible, the
adoption of system of payment by the
hour for all labor performed, other than
piece work or salary work, and to obtain
the cooperation of associations of work
men in this just and equitable arrange
ment. In some cities where the system
OF paying for labor by the hour is not
IN vogue, there is some query as to just
what the system includes.
In Chicago, ever since the great fire of
1871, nearly all contractors have bsen in
the habit of paying for their labor by
the hour, instead of by the day. By
the old custom of paying by the day,
still in almost general use, the day was
made the unit of time and of payment.
A quarter of day was made the small
est division of this unit. If n man did
not work quarter of day, he received
no pay. If he worked over quarter Cf
day, he received pay for half a day,
etc. This is unjust to the laboring man
who works but an hour and is suddenly
called away. 1t is equally unjust to the
contractor who pays for half day when
he only receives but little over quar-
ter.
In the payment by the hour system
the hour is made the unit of measure,
all time is kept by the hour. If man
works less than half an hour it is not
counted. If he works over half an hour,
he is credited with IN hour.
The number of hours in days work
does not affect the system Mt all, and all
contractors reserve the right to work rs
many hours as is necessary and agreed.
Overtime is credited as time and half,
and Sundays rs double time. A man
leaving work without permission is dis
charged, but when he leaves with per-
mission he is paid for exactly the amount
Of work he has accomplished. This is
all there is to the payment by the ,.44r
system. Those who have tried it like it
infinitely better than the old method
SANITARY Netcs
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-30
The Art of Bread Making.

The Milling World gives the following
facts of interest to all housewives: A
barrel of good flour should make from
270 to 2S5 five cent loaves. Many bak-
ers blend four brands, as two Minnesota
spring. and two Indiana winters, before
they get the right alloy. Others use
cnly one grade of spring and two of
winter wheat. These make the best
brands of fancy bread. Formerly yeast
was made of malt, potatoes, and hops,
and this is extensively used. Fancy
bread bakers use a patent yellow COM
pressed yeast. 1t is popularly supposed
that bakers use alum extensively in or
der to whiten their bread. That is not
the fact. There is no necessity for the
use of alum, and it is not used in the
trade. There are about twenty large
steam bakeries in New York, which
give employment to several hundred
men. One of these, noted Broadway
establishment, makes a speciality of
Vienna bread, and does an immense
business. Vienna bread is made in air
tight ovens, of the best grade of -four,
and milk is used instead of water in
mixing the dough. In baking, the steam
settles back on the bread instead of es-
Gaping. This makes the outer crust
thin and tender, and gives the bread a
peculiarly rich taste and pleasant aroma.
What is known to the trade as ''steam"
bread is another recent invention. 1t is
made of the very finest of flour and
baked in air tight pans, which inclose it
on all sides. 1t is thus baked in its own
steam and possesses a flavor peculiarly
its own. One very large bakery in New
York is devoted solely to the production
of aerated bread. It is steam factory,
and the bread SO made is extremely light
and spongy. The invention is an Eng
hsh one, but has been in use here for
years. When the dough has reached a
certain consistency, it is run into an air
tight cylinder and strongly impregnated
with carbonic acid gas. This creates the
lightness and sponginess without de-
tracing in the slightest from its nutri-
tious qualities.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-30
More Effective Persuasion.

The San Francisco Chronicle says:
Which brings to me the little parallel
which happened at Sacramento. The
child is only ten years old, and if there
isn't going to be trouble about her when
she grows up l shall be surprised. She
was apparently progressing very nicely
at school. At first she had a good deal
to say when she got home every day,
but of late she has made but few re-
marks, and has been distinguished by
an air of self-satisfaction which has
much disturbed her good mother. The
other morning as she was going off to
school, she said
Mamma, l want bottle of water. "
"What for 2"
''To take to school with me-"
"What do you want to do with it p
"To put the flowers the boys bring
me in.
"Flowers Well, never You don't
mean to say you ask the boys to bring
you flowers ?"
"No, of course not p very contemp-
tEously.
We'll, how do you get them?"
"There is only one boy who brings
them. Jimmy Smith brings flowers
every day"
"For you2"
"No; all the girls tease him all the
time for them"
81 hope you don't9"
"No,5 again worry contemptuously, "of
course l don't. just look at him and
he gives them To me-
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MIR. Eyerts Got q Reply.

At New York city, in the fall OF
1856, a case was tried in which Senator
Evarts appeared for defense. Mr.. Evarts
made the concluding argument. and the
fame of the great counselor secured for
him considerable audience of lawyers
from neighboring courts. in addition to
many persons who had more or less in
terest in the proceedings.
Mr.. Everts had been speakinp for some
hours and was evidently nearing his pc
roration. He began to sum up his ar
guments, and asked impressively what
answer could be made to them. Again
he placed the points in lucid array, and
again asked similar question. Then
third time he restated his case with
VIVID eloquence, and once more, in loud
er tones, wound up with:
''What is their answer"
"He paused. You could have heard
pin drop. Suddenly the door of the
courtroom opened, and peddler, stick
ing his head and a feather-duster into
the opening, cried out:
"Brooms p
In moment the room was ringing
with uncomfortable laughter, in which
everybody Jolned-even the Judge on
the bench and the orator himself. Mr..
Evarts, however, kept on his feet, and
was the first to recover composure.
With his hand raised to command at
tentiOn, as the roar subsided, he said,
solemnly:
"1hGt was not, indeed, the reply
which L expected. But you may rest
assured that when you do get their ans
wer you will find it equally frivolous
and inconsequent."
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A RANCHER'S ROMANCE.
Carrying His Dead Babe in His
Arms Seventy-five Miles,
..At RaMlins. Wvominr a few menLs

cat Rawlins, Wyoming, few week:
ago" said commercial traveller to {
Chicago Herald man, Il saw one of the
saddest incidents il has ever been my
misfortune to witness. A rancher rode
into town an horseback holding in his
arms dead baby-a sweet little thing
with faxen hair, which curled all over
its head, and soft blue eyes which had
not been closed even in death. Sc
twenty-five miles across the country that
rancher had carried the dead babe in
his arms. l talked with him and heard
his story. It was ike this:
ga year or more ago he had begun q
correspondence with young woman
in Chicago, getting her address from a
matrimonial paper. The result was an
exchange of photographs, and finally
marriage. The girl wont to live with
him ON his ranch. as the lonely life
there did4lot sit - re ...tv n;rl and a few
weeks after the birth of her babe she
ran away to Chicago, leaving husband
and child behind her. There was no
woman on the ranch, and the rough
father did the best be could to rear
the child. I have no doubt that he
was tender and attentive-in fact, he
said he neglected his stock and did
nothing else but care for the child
but robbed of its mothers care the
little one sickened and died.
Ny life seemed to go out with that
ar little one. said the rancher, in his
rough way, an when she died cried like
awoman. Then my heart rose i'll anger
against the mother, and felt that [
could kill her. It seemed to me that
ar babe would be alire and smillin' an
cooin. to-day if her mother had not de-
serted her. Then, says to myself I'll
be revenged. And SO L wrapped the
poor little one in blanket, jumped on
my horse and came here. I'm goin' to
send the mother little present, q
peace-offerin' from her deserted hus-
band. I'm goin' to send her the body
of her little 'un.'
''He actually procured a little coffin
and laid the babe in it, after kissing the
white face again and again cutting q
few locks of the golden hair from the
little round head. There were no tears
in his eyes-he seemed to be past that
but as he turned away from the rail
way station, where he had shipped the
body to an address to Chicago which
shall not give, he appeared to me to be
the most broken-hearted man I'd ever
seen.
"In five minutes he came running
back, seized the little box and exclaim-
ed:
"No, no! I can't do it. Give me my
httle'un. Keep the money, but give my
little girl
"Before the station agent could say
word the man had put the box on his
shoulder and run away. Five minutes
later we saw him on his horse, the box
in his arms, galloping back to his
ranch. {"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-30
IRE N E.

During the last months of my stay in
Athens in 1886 lodged in the house of
Spiros Bamburis. l chose this house
because it was fresh and clean, and
because there was an extensive view
from the balcony over the newly born
metropolis and great part of the envi-
rons-the valley of the Cephissus with
the mountain chain beyond, the Mounts
Iycabettus and Hymettus, and the Ac-
ropolis, being all within its sweep.
At first [ had very little intercourse
with my hosts. Early in the morning,
long before we Europeans had risen,
Kyr (ATr.) Spiror had left for his stall
IN the bazaar, where he sold wooden
and linen goods, as also sugar, coffee,
and rum; and in the evening he did not
generally return until had gone out to
pay visits or to the cafe, so that it was
rare for me to see him. His somewhat
elderly sister, Kyria (Iistress) Maria,
whom l met more frequently, would
pass me in silence, evidently consider
ing the exchange of ''good morning"
sufficient conversation for the day, while
her niece, Irene, an orphan whom she
was bringing up, was apparently COM
manded not even to look at me if she
could help it. At any rate, whenever l
passed through the courtyard she al
ways managed to find something to do
which should prevent me obtaining
view of her face. Either she would
stooP down to pick M stone that
moment before had in no way troubled
her, or something would be amiss with
her shoe, or she sat herself down on
bench and put her little head in her
hands. And once when happened to
appear rather suddenly, nothing better
suggested itself to her than to thrust
her little head and ears into the big
earthen pot she was cleaning, from the
depths of which, however, could not
help hearing the smothered sound of
merry laugh. But notwithstanding all
her precautions, it was not always posi-
BILE for her to hide her face from me;
and before had been fortnight in the
house 1 had convinced myself that she
was one of the most beautiful girls in
Athens.
Such were our relations at first. But
gradually MS my hosts came to know me
better-that is, when they observed that
generally came home early in the
evening, did not take too much wine,
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Travelling in Mexico.

One Inconvenience in travelling in
Mexico, says Charles Dudley Warner in
Harper's, is the bulky silver money with
which the tourist must load himself
down. Whenever moved any distance
from the capital, carried a shot bag full
of the cart wheel dollars, which were
worth from nineteen TO twenty-four cents
less than United States money. The
bank of London and South America, in
Mexico, issue notes which are current in
the States of Mexico and NHchoacan, and
perhaps elsewhere, but not good in the
State of Vera Cruz, although the bank
officials assured us they were. Con-
sequently we have this anomaly, which
is Characteristic of Mexico, that while the
railway company of the Mexican railway
receive these notes for fare at the Mexican
end, they would not take them Mt all at
the Vera Cruz terminus.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-30
Paving A Novel PoliticaI Wager.

An incident in the late Major Ben:
Perley Poore's life which illustrates the
political proclivities and bias of the man
is worthy of record here because it has
been celebrated in prose and song, and
made its hero famous as the first to ac-
compish q feat which has since been
more or less repeated by others. Major
Poorcs early trainings and surroundings
we're Whig, and of that party he remained,
while it lasted, devoted and uncompro-
missing friend until the times called for
the practical expression of loyal Repub-
icanism. In 1857 he wheeled upon
common whcebarrow barrel of apples
of his own raising, from Indian Hill
Farm to Boston-a distance of 36h miles
in payment of a wager made in tho
heated Presidential campaign of the year
preceding. The wheclbarrow remains
to the present day a trophy at Indian Hill
Farm.-Neao York Tribune
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ARISTOCRATIC HENS.

Neighbor-What beautiful hens yor
have, Mrs. Stuckup.
Mrs. Stuckup-Yes, they are all i'm
| ported fowls
suppose they lay eggs every 1aye
Mrs Stuckup, proudly)-They could
do so if they saw proper, but our cir,
cumstances are such that my hens are
not required to lay eggs every day."
ODDS AND ENDS.
If you are good, you know it; if you
are bad, everybody knows it.
WHICH is the worst sinner, the mar
who can sing and won't or the man who
can't and will2
A MAN must have tough conscience
when he thinks that misappropriating
money that does not belong to him is
not stealing.
THOUSANDS of people consider theman
who can make two-base hit a much
greater genius than one who can make a
two-hour speech. And possibly they
are right.
THE most dangerous men in the world
are those who are half fool and half
knave. They are always being used by
rascals and always saying they meant
for the best.
He was 'iewel" when she married
him; six months later he was her ''gem. ."
When the matter came up in the divorce
trial, two years after, she explained
that e. e. m. stood for ''green-eyed
monster"
81 DEEPLY regret it, sir, but honor
and nv altered circumstances compel
me to release your daughter from her
engagement. | cannot enter your faml-
ly beggar. In the recent deal In the
North End stocks l lost my entire for
tune" ''Not another word, my boy,
not another word. l got it. p"
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Advertising Rates.
THE FISHERMAN'.S BRIDE.

In the door of her humble cottage,
When fall the shades of night,
She stands as she wistfully gazes
At the waves with their silvery light;
And her heart is sore and heavy
With the fears that unbidden rise,
As she chokes back to their fountain
The tears which spring to her eyes.
Now she stills all the sounds around her,
And soothes the babe at her side;
She bushes cen her hearts throbbings
And all save the swell of the tide,
As her fancy draws the picture
OF his loved form o'cr and DER,
And the waves ring with the music
OF the voice she will hear no more.
Now the footsteps come heavily laden;
oh Gedi what can this thing be
That the sailors bear on their shoulders
To her home on the shore of the sea 2
And she hastens with tottering footsteps
As the weli-loved name she calls;
And she shuns their pitying glances,
At their feet she helpless falls.
Eow her tears fall fast. o, HeavenI
How she longs and prays to die
As she gazcs at the marble form
With its leaden, CLASSY eye!
o, We men with power and richest
How trite to you these words sound
'Tis an every day occurrence
''Only fisherman drowned !"
A fisherman, only a fishermanl
The sun shines out as bright,
The bowl goes round as gaily,
And the langh rings loud and light.
Yes, to you it is commonplace, trivial,
And you scarcely give it a thought;
But, Oh God! remember the widow,
And heal her poor, broken heartl
M. II. Friend
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'Kyr Spir0s appeared before me-"
and did not beat my servant Jorgi, our
relations changed sensibly for the bet
ter.
One Sunday morning early Kyr Spiros
appeared before me in all the glory of
his snow-white Albanian skirt or kilt,
his rich Tunisian feZ, his jacket of fine
blue cloth embroidered with silk, costly
rosary of amber in his hands. He had
come to pay me q visit, and as he slowly
let the amber beads drop one by one
through his fingers he gave me to under
stand that my uncommon sobriety and
steadiness had greatly prepossessed both
himself and his maiden sister in my
favor, and had determined him to show
me personally his respect, sebasmata,
by his visit. l thanked my worthy host
heartily for his good opinion of me, and
promised to make myself still more de
serving of il. At the same time / shook
him warmly by the hand and requested
him to be serted. l then ordered pipes
and coffee, and while we smoked and
drank we chatted away about nutmegs
and currants, arrac and neckerchlefs, like
two old cronies, until, as we warmed,
our converse took higher flights, and we
discoursed at large on trade and manu-
factures, Church and State. / think l
may safely say we agreed on all points,
for Kyr SpirOs left me with the most
fattering speeches about the Germans
in general, and myself in particular, and
promised often to come and see me
again, promise which he duly fulfilled
by calling upon me thenceforth regu-
larly every Sunday morning.
Soon afterward an event happened
which was fraught with the most agree
able consequences. An iron stove that
l had ordered from Germany arrived,
and, pending the necessary preparations
Tor its reception in my room, had to
stand for a couple of hours in the court
yard. While 1 was busy up stairs, in
structng Greek tinsmith in the intr1
eacles OF providing an exit for the smoke
py substituting metal plate for pane
oi glass and constructing an opening in
IL, remarked with delight that down
stairs aunt and niece were gazing on the !
strahge arrival with wondeE walking
round IT and apparently questioning
one another about this great iron pot |
stahdlng ON its four slim pedestals, evil |
usntiy puzzled as to the purpose for /
"hlch TINS extraordinary piece of furni- |
luIe could be intended. / hurried |
quickly down, but before could get to
the bottom OF the staircase Irene had !
ned and had disappeared behind tbe
oeof OF Their cottage, so that tbe expIa-
nation would so fain have impaired n
w aleoe was forced to give to the less
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-30
Those Dinner Pals.

Dinner pals. Recently these afford
ed IN interesting economical study
There were more than score of them
in the hands of laborers seated on the
sidewalks with their backs against the
big wall which protects Trinity Church,
yard on New Church street. We could
not help seeing their contents rs VIC
passed. Every man had light, spongiy
wheat bread. Many of them had with
it boiled eggs OF liberal slices Of meat,
In most every pail was some luxury;
either pie or huge chunks of cake, and
not of the plainCst sort, but rich layer
cake. They also had liberal supply of
either tea or coffee. And was it not sig
nificant that not one of the wage earn
ers was found drinking beer? Nowhere
else in the wide, wide world will the
dinner pals of the workers tempt the
appetite rs here i'll the United States
No millionaire in this big city eats bet
ter food of the same sort than we saw
taken from the workmep'spaila, -Amer-
icdR GF0Ger.
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.sYon have come to bid me goodbye

"You have come to bid me goodbye,
Irene" I said. But she hardly let me
! finish the sentence. She threw her arms
round my neck and kissed meas a
queen might have kissed a sailor. Then,
while her soft white hands clasped my
neck, she said: ''Must you then goE
Stay with me, my life !"
She would not have spoken in vain. 1t
seemed to me as though soft tanning
wings were stirring up the passion which
had long lain dormant in my heart and
were making it burn and glow, and L
began to feel rs if my heart were some
infammable material which would soon
burst into an uncomfortable flame. L
stood speechless, a prey to contending
emotions. Presently l bent down over
the sweet girl, who, rs she perceived
this, raised herself, clasped her arms
more tightly round my neck, and
pressed her mouth to mine so lovingly,
so passionately, so intoXicatingly.
Suddenly Kyria Maria appeared at the
door to bid me goodbye. We had
hardly sense enough left to feel confused
ae her sudden appearance. She looked
at us in some surprise, but smiled
benevolently, as if we were two children
and she forgave us, as we would not do
it again. / did not understand one-half
of what she said to me, for was look
ing all the time at Irene, who, with her
handkerchief to her eyes, was standing
at the window with her back to us. At
length Jorgi dashed in with the news
that the horses were ready and were
waiting below This reused me. I took
up my coat and cloak, bade my four
walls adieu, and descended the stairs in
silence. Aunt and niece followed me,
equally silent.
1 mounted my horse. Kyria Maria
advanced toward me, gave me her hand,
wishing me many years; begged me to
greet my father and mother in Germany
for her, and hoped L should have a safe
and pleasant journey.
Then Irene-now somewhat calmer-
stretched out her little hand to me.
''Zoe naOu, na me agapas" Glove me,
my life, y she whispered, her eyes suf-
fused with tears; then went slowly back
into the cottage, while / rode sadly
away.
Ny presentiment was right: I never
saw Irene again. -BLqck9c009s Mdqdzi7le
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TERMS $3.50.
SMITHS SORE THROAT.


Smith, who is afflicted with sore
throat, has asked his friend Brown to
examine it.
Brown (peering down Smiths throat)
-HOn which side is the sore spOt2 2"
Smith (speaking with difficulty
the left side"
Brown-"Coming up or going down2"
-Ieras SJtings.
IN CENTRAL PARK
"Do you see that couple in the gon-
dola who are flirting SO desperatelyl"
eyes, see them"
''Well, the lady is a young widow who
lost her husband only few months ago,
and that fellow is courting her in the
gondola.'
''He aint courting; he is 'condoling
with her. "-1eras Slftings.
AN ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE.
Major Kincald (who has just popped)
I'm not so very old, Miss Daisy. King
Solomon was over a hundred, you know,
when he married, and I'm sure he made
q good husband.
Miss Crozier-Yes; but he had so
many wives Mt time that the-er-caro
of him was nicely distributed, don't you
ow.-IId-Bjts.
UNPREPARED.
"Let's see, YOUR witness in that
case which comes off tomorrow, aren't
you?" qucried Wigwug.
eyes, replied Filtrip.
(Which side summoned you2"
81 don't know"
"Don't know! Why, man alive, how
are you going to testify then3"-Detroh
Free Press.
NOT DOWN ON THE BILLS.
"Do you think" she asked, dreamily,
MS he sat beside her at the circus, 'that
this is the same elephant saw when
was child 2"
"No," he answered with scornful can
dor, ''you know elephants only live to be
two hundred years old"
1t won't be this year.
so KIND.
Mistress-I am sorry to have you
leave me, Mary.
Maryland I'm sorry to go. There
isn't anybody I'd sooner do favor for.
Mistress-Ah, indeed Then won't
you be so kind as to give me a recon-
mendation to hand to the next cook who
applies?
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elegance. From her Athenian ances-
tors on the mothers side, she had in
herited the merry joke, the bright talk,
the faultless grace of movement; but her
views of life seemed tinged with Doric
severity, for never heard light word
from her-nor did 1, to my credit l
may say it, ever let one fall before her.